The impending enactment of the Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program (ETEEAP) bill would help employees without a degree take a step up in their professional careers, the chair of the House committee on labor and employment said. This was after the Senate recently passed on third and final reading its version of the […]
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Senator Bong Go co-sponsored Senate Bill No. 2441, or the “Free College Entrance Examinations Act,” which aims to further democratize access to quality education in the country. The bill, under Committee Report No. 122, mandates that private higher education institutions must waive entrance examination fees for certain qualified students. Drawing upon the 1987 Philippine Constitution, […]
Senator Bong Go filed Senate Bill No. 1708 that seeks to mandate private higher education institutions to waive college entrance examination fees to underprivileged graduating high school students and high school graduates belonging to the academic top ten of their graduating class. “Let us help widen the opportunities of our underprivileged youth especially the best […]
If the House of Representatives will have its way, no student both in public and private higher educational institutions (HEIs) will ever be barred from taking periodical or final examinations just because of unpaid tuition and other fees. With an overwhelming 237 votes, the lower house has approved on 3rd and final reading House Bill […]
The ACTS-OFW Partylist has lauded President Rodrigo Duterte for his decision to grant a one-time P30,000 cash assistance for the education needs of some 33,000 children of repatriated or displaced overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are in college. ACTS-OFW Partylist Chairman John Bertiz III said the government’s cash assistance to college-level children of OFWs will go a long way in ensuring that they continue […]
It is never too late to earn a college degree. This was the advice given by reelectionist Senator Sonny Angara to over 360,000 unemployed university dropouts, as well as high school graduates but did not proceed to college, as he urged them to return to school and take advantage of the government’s free tertiary education. […]